Relearning Leadership

Luke Hohmann joins Pete to share insights into one of the most under-focused aspects of software development - the profit factor.

Luke provides insights for leaders to bring profit into their strategic decision making and the 6 ways to trade value for money.

Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website to learn more about Luke's book with a discount code to purchase.

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What does it take to influence others without the authority of title or position?

Pete talks with Brad Swanson who shares his insights on impacting change without "pushing the command button" . The techniques we discuss apply equally to leaders who do not have authority and those who do but wish to avoid using it. 

Brad Swanson is an organizational systems coach and Agile Leadership Journey Guide based in Denver, Colorado.

Explore more about this episode on the Agile Leadership Journey (Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website.

Can being too good be bad? Welcome to the Perfection Trap, where seeking to be better may not be in your best interest. 

Rashmi Fernandes, Agile Leadership Journey Guide and Leadership Coach shares the difference between seeking improvement and striving for perfection and why you should know the difference.

Pete shares what is likely the most important and least understood aspect of leadership - presence. What is it? How does a leader activate it?

Pete goes back to the basics to provide a clear definition of leadership presence and through story share how leaders can improve their presence.

Professional athletes and artists practice more than they perform to achieve and maintain their peak performance. Licensed professionals like doctors, nurses, pilots, lawyers and teachers practice *alot* to even be granted their license, and their tested. But what about leaders?

Unfortunately leaders are not required to practice to either achieve their title nor to achieve peak performance. Why is that?

Pete explores the concept and the importance of practice for leaders and shares the stage with a few leaders and guides who share the value they've received from practice.

Pete explores the concept of leadership power and how to improve leadership effectiveness through balancing it.

(Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website contains details, transcript and more.

What is self-leadership and why is it so important to you as a leader?

Pete speaks with Nick Jonsson, the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia's premiere networking organizations, Executives' Global Network (EGN) Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia about the importance of leading yourself before leading others.

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Exactly one year following two of the most significant personal life events, Pete is back with another personal story, this time with the passing of his father.

In this episode Pete celebrates his father's life and the influence it had on Pete as a person, husband, father and leader. He also explores the challenge in choosing for others once they lose the capacity to do so on their own.

Related Episodes:

1. A Time to Decide Part I: The End of Life - shares the story of his mother's fight with cancer and her final choice to end her life. 
2. A Time to Decide Part II: The Marshall Fire - shares the story of the most catastrophic wildfire in Colorado's history destroying over 1,000 homes and literally coming up to the doorstep of Pete's home. 

Pete continues his exploration of the leader's focus in part II of this series, by tapping into one of the most difficult aspects of blending your focus - letting go.

However, through this episode, we learn that letting go is only half of the problem, watch and listen to learn the other half.

Pete Behrens exposes the light on a common myth in leadership focus - that leaders need to shift their focus from doing work to leading others to do that work to coaching others to develop their competency in that work.